LAST WEEKEND, Katie Thisdell received the Virginia Press Association's First Amendment Award. Thisdell, until recently, was the editor of James Madison University's student newspaper, The Breeze.
According to the Virginia Press Association's website, the award, which dates to 2007, "is given to journalists, newspapers or citizens who, in an extraordinary way, seek to advance, defend or preserve the First Amendment."
Thisdell's effort to defend and preserve the First Amendment was her resistance to a prosecutor's raid on her paper's newsroom. The prosecutor wanted - and took
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